The Presence of dominican missionaries in Vietnam from the 16th to the 18th centuries

Truong, Anh Thuan (author)

The article focuses on research to clarify the missionary activities of Do-minican missionaries in Vietnam, from the first contact period (1550–1628) to the period of return to Vietnam and the gradual establishment of their positi-on in the Diocese of Eastern Tonkin (1676–1796). During that process, the Do-minican Order also achieved many remarkable results in training indigenousmissionaries and conquering the faith of the Vietnamese, contributing with other missionary forces to introduce and develop Christianity in Vietnamesesociety during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The research on this issue was carried out based on exploiting original materials recorded by Dominican mis-sionaries and other missionary forces and currently archived at the Congrega-tion for the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. In addition, the academic achievements of Vietnamese and international scholars directly or indirectly related to the article’s content also become one of two essential reference sources. The article’s author combines two main research methods of Historical Science (historical and logical) with other research methods such as analysis, synthesis, statistics, comparison, etc. The article will significantlycontribute to the study of the history of the introduction and development of Christianity in Vietnam, as well as the role of the Dominican Order in this pro-cess during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Dominican Order, Vietnam, Eastern Tonkin, missionary, diocese
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 303-318
• Numbering: Letn. 85, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-177643
• UDC: 27-789.33(597)"15/17"
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2025/02/Thuan
• COBISS.SI-ID: 262066691
• Publication date in RUL: 30.12.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prisotnost dominikanskih misijonarjev v Vietnamu med 16. in 18. stoletjem

Abstract

Prispevek se posveča raziskavi, ki razjasnjuje misijonsko delovanje do-minikanskih misijonarjev v Vietnamu – od obdobja prvih stikov (1550–1628)do obdobja vrnitve v Vietnam in postopnega utrjevanja njihovega položaja v škofiji Vzhodni Tonkin (1676–1796). V tem procesu je dominikanski red dosegel tudi številne izjemne rezultate pri usposabljanju domačih misijonarjev in spreobračanju Vietnamcev, s čimer je skupaj z drugimi misijonarskimi močmi prispeval k uvedbi in razvoju krščanstva v vietnamski družbi od 16. do 18. stoletja. Raziskava je bila izvedena na podlagi izvirnih besedil, ki so jih napisali dominikanski in drugi misijonarji in jih trenutno hrani Kongregacija za širjenje v eden od bistvenih referenčnih virov so akademski dosežki vietnamskih in med-narodnih znanstvenikov, ki so neposredno ali posredno povezani z vsebino prispevka. Avtor dve glavni raziskovalni metodi zgodovinske znanosti (zgodovinskoin logično) povezuje z drugimi raziskovalnimi metodami, kot so analiza, sinteza, statistika, primerjava itd. Prispevek bo pomembno prispeval k študiju zgodovine uvajanja in razvoja krščanstva v Vietnamu ter vloge dominikanskega reda v tem procesu v 16., 17. in 18. stoletju.

• Keywords: dominikanski red, Vietnam, Vzhodni Tonkin, misijonar, škofija